Morning Mail: the big beef producer and the frontier wars; ‘progress’ in Ukraine talks; real range of EVs revealed
Good morning. We continue our Descendants series with revelations of Australia’s biggest beef producer’s historical links to abuses against Aboriginal people – through the actions of its longest-serving superintendent before he joined the company, and others who helped establish its farming operations in the 19th century.
With all eyes on Moscow as Donald Trump’s deadline for Russia to agree to peace with Ukraine looms large, US officials have met with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.
An academic is crying foul after the University of Sydney removed a Palestinian flag flying from his office window. And: a new study finds the real-world range of EVs doesn’t match manufacturers’ claims.
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Can Trump be shamed into supporting human rights?
After three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch, the former executive director Kenneth Roth has written a memoir about his time campaigning against human rights violations around the world – including in the Palestinian occupied territories. He speaks with Nour Haydar about why he thinks there’s always a strategy to pressure governments into supporting better human rights outcomes.
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The US Bureau of Labor Studies released its July employment figures last week, and they were not good. In response, Donald Trump did what any autocrat would do when told bad news: he shot the messenger – by firing the commissioner of labor statistics. In his latest Grogonomics column, Greg Jericho argues that Trump’s war on statistics is an authoritarian attack on democracy – and countries like Australia should call it out.
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The Tjanpi Desert Weavers is an Indigenous-run social enterprise that empowers women across 350,000 sq km of central Australia to earn an income through fibre art. Its contemporary art and sculptural works based in traditional practices have been exhibited in Australia – and around the world. Thirty years after it all began, Dellaram Vreeland looks at how 400 Indigenous women in remote Australia took the art world by storm.
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Increasing numbers of older Australians are seeking to share houses as property prices continue rising and rental costs soar, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Business leaders claim Melbourne’s post-Covid recovery is under threat from the state government’s plan to enshrine a legal right to work from home, the Age reports.
What’s happening today
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NSW | A hearing is scheduled in the NSW supreme court as MP Gareth Ward fights parliamentary expulsion.
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Nationwide | A national student strike is scheduled in support of Palestine.
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NSW | The Lowy Institute is hosting a debate on “How to defend Australia”.
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Business | AMP’s full-year results are due to be announced this morning.
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